1975: And the Changes to Come

If you haven’t heard of the 1962 book that predicts (or, tries to predict) what technology will look like thirteen short years from the date of publication, please check out the Flickr photoset recently posted by Derrick Bostrom. I’m most frightened interested by the obsession with punch-card systems for language translation, making exact replicas of documents, and testingstudentknowledge, but the thought of irradiated beans doesn’t sit well with me, either. On the other hand, I might soon be blogging from the comfort of my own beach home: